University Daily Kansan, April 7, 1984
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Senate to oppose Solomon aid rule
By SARA KEMPIN Staff Reporter
After long and heated debate last night, the Student Senate passed an amended version of a resolution opposing the amendment requiring college men to prove they have registered for the draft before they could receive financial aid.
The resolution stated that the University of Kansas should take a stand on the issue because the Associated Students of Kansas had asked its members to pass a resolution expressly against it, known as the Solomon Amendment.
Several senators objected to the resolution, authored by Scott Swenson, ASK campus director, John Conard, engineering senator and Bob Walker. They believed because it contained too many grammatical and punctuation errors.
DAN CUNNINGHAM, INTER Fraternity Council senator, said he objected to the bill because it was full of style errors and because he did not think ASK should take stands on social issues.
"If ASK starts taking stands on these kinds of issues again, then we'll be right back where we started a few years ago," he said.
Our credibility with the Legislature used to be zero because we took stands on all sorts of social issues. This is just one example, and you can probably Senate should not be involved in.
"Let's not be made up to be the protectors of all the draft dodgers in the
Tom Berger, graduate student student,
said, "I don't see why you're opposed to taking a stand on this. Why is this different from any other social issue? I hope we don't just dismiss the issue because of grammar errors.
"IF ASK DOESN'T WANT to respond to the issue, then it's the responsibility of the Senate to take a stand on this. It doesn't have anything to do with draft doggers. Financial aid and registering issues that should not be linked."
Blair Tinkle, co-chairman of the Senate Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities committee, said, "Here we are worried about saving the credibility of ASK, but where is its credibility if it won't address a student issue?"
Chris Schneider, member of the University Council, said that the council at its last meeting discussed the poor financial situation of colleges in the state.
During the meeting, Ernest Angino, chairman of the Council, told Schneider that student groups such as ASK would
be more effective if they talked to legislators more about financial issues than about such issues as liquor-by-the-drink.
"If you pass this legislation, it won't do a darn bit of good, so why waste your credibility?" he said.
ROGER RAMSEYER, LIBERAL Arts and Sciences senator, said he objected to the resolution opposing the Solomon amendment because, "If the government will scratch your back by giving you a loan, how can you not scratch its back and register for the draft?"
Several senators said they disagreed with the Solomon Amendment because it discriminated against low-to-middle income students who most often applied for financial aid and to males because women were not required by law to register for the draft.
Loren Busby, chairman of the Senate Finance and Auditing Committee said, "It's not a question of whether you're willing to fight and die for your country. If you don't register for the draft you are already in danger of being fined or put in prison. There's no reason to penalize students more.
just because we're students doesn't mean we give up our social privileges. We make a farce of ourselves if we don't take a stance on this issue."
BERGER SAID THE chancellor had issued a statement opposing the Solomon Amendment because it would require him to be an administrative burden for the University.
The Senate passed an amendment to the resolution that lessened the grammatical errors of the legislation and authorized it by the Senate oppose the amendment.
In other business last night, the Senate referred three bills dealing with revising the rules and regulations of the Senate to a committee recently formed to rewrite the outdated rules and regulations.
The Senate also elected nine senators to fill student seats on the University Council.
They are: Berger, graduate student senator; Jill Eddy, Student Senate executive committee chairman; David Fidler, Numemaker senator; Jon Gilchrist, business senator; Shari Rogge, co-chairman of the Senate Cultural Affairs Committee; Ann Fidler, Liberal Arts and Sciences senator; Kay Lawrence, engineering senator; Cathy Ormsbee, Nunemaker senator; and Janet Matthews, graduate student senator.
THE SENATE THEN ELECTED Rogge, Ormsbee and Berger to the Senate Executive Committee.
Group calls for overhaul of insanity plea
WASHINGTON — A commission that studied the insanity defense following John Hinckley's acquittal in the assassination attempt on President Reagan said yesterday the burden of proof of insanity should be switched to defendants.
The National Commission on the Insanity Defense, chaired by former Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., said that the United States has no criminal cases, and it was even rarer
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for a defendant to win an insanity acquittal.
"WE CANNOT IMPROVE the insanity defense by eliminating it," the commission said. "It has not been the tradition of our society to simply abolish a legal defense because on very rare occasions we may disagree with a jury's acceptance of the defendant's plea."
The commission, created by the National Mental Health Association following the public outcry over Hinkley's insanity acquittal last year,
issued 12 recommendations on the insanity defense.
IT SAID THE DEFENSE should be retained but the burden should be shifted to the defendant to prove insanity. Currently, the burden is on prosecutors in federal courts and in 24 states to prove a defendant is sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
It also recommended:
*The term "not responsible by reason of insanity" should be substituted for the term "not guilty by reason of insanity."
- A special statute should be adopted to deal with handling defendants acquitted by reason of insanity so they are not automatically released back into the community without screening or supervision.
- The often-proposed verdict of "guilty but mentally ill" not be adopted in any jurisdiction.
The Reagan administration is supporting a bill that would narrow the defense to those who are unable to participate in nature or wrongfulness of their acts.
Reagan plan would cut youth minimum wage
By SUSAN STANLEY
Staff Reporter
Students who will work at minimum wage-paying jobs this summer may not receive that wage if a proposal offered to them passes, a state official said yesterday.
Although the idea behind the proposal is to increase the number of jobs available to people between 16 and 21, students do not like the idea and are not sure if they will comply even if the proposal is approved.
The proposal, submitted to Congress as a part of the Employment Act of 1980, would cut the minimum wage by $2.5 per hour and赡付 youth from $3.35 to $2.50.
THE STATE OFFICIAL, Don Bruner, director of the Kansas Office of Employment Standards, said the wage hearing during which she was passed during this legislative session.
Missy Crankif, employment coordinator for Worlds of Fun, said the park, which employed many students each day, was the center of powering its wage if the law was passed.
Employees are paid $2.90 by the park because the business is seasonal and exempt from minimum wage laws, she said.
Sam Sheply, manager of Walmart,
2727 Ila St., said the store would not decrease the amount it would pay students even if the law passed.
“As I see it, it would create disparity and unhappiness between the part-time workers and the full-time workers,” Powers said. “Maybe we should allow for a little messing with a minimum wage in the first place, but we shouldn't go changing it now.”
DENNY POWERS, ASSISTANT manager of Gibsons, 2525 Iowa St., said he would not favor a program that reduced the minimum wage in such a way.
Shepley said many of the employees were students and that all of them started out at the same $3.50 wage.
He said the change could cause "wage wars" between businesses.
Jessica Foretic, Prairie Village senior, said she thought the proposal was unfair.
"It would be a bad idea. Students work hard at their jobs during the summers to make enough to go to school in the fall," she said. "They shouldn't have to work that hard and only get paid $2.50."
CHRISTINA VOPEL, KANSAS City, Kan., sophomore, said, "That idea sucks. A lot of college students depend on the money they make during the summer. And college students are traditionally poor as it is."
The proposal has been attacked by financial aid and state officials who say the proposal will make it harder for students to save money for college.
Pam Houston, assistant director of the office of financial aid, said that even if the law passed, the University of Kansas would still pay all of its work-study employees the regular minimum wage.
Houston said the student wage was set by the Board of Regents and they are not charged.
"What are we going to ask them to do?" she said. "Will we have to ask them to work 40 hours a week to afford to go to school?"
MARK TALLMAN, DIRECTOR of the associated Students of Kansas, said the proposal would hurt college students who depended upon savings from their summer jobs to pay for their educations.
The proposal included measures that would allow the employers to pay the lower wage to workers between May 1st and Sept. 30. The purpose of the proposal is to avoid the long-term negative effects of youth unemployment including crimes committed by youths.
Bruner, of the employment standards office, said he thought the proposal could have a different negative effect by making it harder for people over 22 to find jobs because it would be less expensive to hire young people.
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